Attraction of wild coastal fishes to an Atlantic subtropical cage fish farms, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 393-401

  Boyra, Arturo ^a   Sanchez Jerez, Pablo ^b   Tuya, Fernando ^a   Espino, Fernando ^a   Haroun, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

aggregation; aquaculture; fish assemblages; fish cage; impact; visual censuses

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; CAGE CULTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; WILD POPULATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

PISCES;

EID: 3943108250     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EBFI.0000035435.51530.c8     Document Type: Article

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